Honorable Mention: NXT rookies attack (Raw 2010)

For me this is one of those moments that have you on the edge of your seat wondering just what will happen next.

It just seemed to come out of nowhere as that particular episode of Raw had been horrible and then out came the eight NXT rookies to save the day, and destroy everything they saw.

It was unlike anything we had seen in the PG era, and unlike anything we had ever seen to be honest. No group or wrestler has caused that much chaos on their first night and I don’t think it will be replicated.

Awesome moment, but it is a recent moment and I don’t know how well it will stand the test of time.

No. 10: Edge Cashes in Money in the Bank (New Year's Revolution 2005)

This was at the height of the John Cena hate era. He had been WWE champion for nearly a year at this point and everyone was dying for someone, anyone, to take that belt off him. And then came Edge.

Everyone had almost forgotten the fact that Edge even had the briefcase; it had been 10 months by this point.

So when Vince McMahon came out to announce that Edge was finally cashing in it was a huge shock, and a sigh of relief to the many who hated Cena at this time.

I remember watching this live and being furious that Cena had once again overcome the odds, so for Edge to come out and finally take the title from him it allowed me to sleep easy that night and decreased my Cena hate just a little.

Although when he beat Shawn Michaels the next year, it was raised again.

No. 9: Mick Foley Flies off the Hell in a Cell (King of the Ring 1998)

This is a moment that was played and replayed a million and one times so everyone knows what I am talking about here, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the craziest, and importantly shocking, bumps I have personally ever seen.

I’m no fan of Japanese death matches, or Japanese wrestling period, so
this was brutal to me.

And while it is generally accepted that this fall wasn’t even the most painful, it will definitely be the most spectacular as the image of Foley plummeting to the table is one that will forever stick in wrestling fans' minds.

No. 7: Floyd Mayweather Breaks Big Show’s nose (No Way Out 2008)

Everyone on the internet at the time knew that Big Show was on his way back to WWE, and while it was fun, it didn’t seem like any must see matches were going to come of it.

That all changed at No Way Out when Big Show returned and started to call out Floyd 'Money' Mayweather it seemed quite reminiscent of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mike Tyson but they managed to up it a level.

When Mayweather cracked Big Show’s nose it went from an interesting segment to a Holy Sh!t segment!

Like a lot of the rivalries in WWE they start off with a bang and start to fizzle out as did Show/Mayweather, but it will always be remembered for that single moment in Las Vegas in 2008 when the whole sports world let out a collected “Wow!”

No. 6: Eric Bischoff Is the Raw GM (Raw 2002)

If there was ever a guy who no one ever imagined would show up on Raw, it was Eric Bischoff, the man who nearly killed the WWE and loved every moment of it.

So come 2002, Bischoff wasn’t exactly on the most likely candidate for the first-ever Raw General Manager job, but that’s exactly what happened as come July 15 when Vince McMahon named Bischoff the new GM of the show he beat in the ratings for 80 weeks.

I don’t think I need to explain how shocking this was. After all, this guy epitomized WCW and now he was WWE property and ran Vince’s flagship show! I guess 'never say never' is the WWE motto.

No. 5: Kurt Angle Signs with TNA (TNA No Surrender 2006)

While most of these moments I thought were either exciting or just plain brilliant, this is the single one I did not like.

Angle was at the top of his game and was the face of the newly established ECW brand and suddenly out of nowhere he quit WWE in the summer of 2006, to what everyone thought was a good-earned rest before coming back better than ever.

However, on Sept. 24 at TNA No Surrender, Angle showed up on a video confirming he had signed with TNA.

This was out of nowhere and was by far the best acquisition TNA has ever acquired, and by far the most surprising!

A golden moment for TNA but a dark day for the WWE as Angle could have been so much more for WWE.

No. 4: Hulk Hogan Turns Heel (WCW Bash at the Beach 1996)

If there was ever a guy who defined the term babyface it was Hulk Hogan, even more so in 1996.

So even though his gimmick was stale and people were starting to get bored of the whole “Eat your vitamins and say your prayers!," no one expected Hogan to turn after all a whole generation had been brought up with Hulkamania.

But at Bash at the Beach he did just that and aligned himself with the two hottest heels in WCW at the time in Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, thus forming the nWo and changing WCW's fortunes for the better.

This was the biggest and best moment WCW ever produced. It was a golden idea that they ran with all the way to the bank and it worked extremely well.